By John Lorinc
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What the Spadina subway overrun means for Scarborough, pt. 1
Parents: hide your children! Apparently, Mayor John Tory is in a state of high dudgeon over the reported (but as yet unconfirmed) $400 million overrun on...
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LORINC: This ice isn’t transparent
Here’s my question about last week’s deal to have two private firms ante up funds to keep some of the City’s rinks open: Is there any kind of firewall...
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The Scarborough Subway and Smart Track are about to collide
Anyone who thinks they can read between the lines of the two sets of council votes this week — about the Scarborough subway and Smart Track — should...
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LORINC: John Tory and the need for an activist mayor
At their confab in Toronto last week, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities big city mayors caucus welcomed John Tory like the return of the prodigal...
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LORINC: Local communities to help build Metrolinx projects
Just two weeks after Metrolinx’s boring machines broke through the extraction shaft at Allen Road, the regional agency reached another major milestone...
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LORINC: Tory needs to use new traffic data to fight congestion
To absolutely no one’s surprise, Mayor John Tory has emerged as the kind of leader who looks both ways — all puns and double entendres intended — before...
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LORINC: What the Hebdo killings, and their aftermath, say about global cities
Yesterday’s massive demonstrations — in Paris, as well capitals around the world, including Toronto – offered a vivid reminder that 21st century...
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LORINC: Waterfront Toronto two steps ahead of Minnan-Wong’s forced outrage
One of the great fictions of the Rob Ford era is that only a tiny clutch of politicians kept watch over all the devious civil servants and special...
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LORINC: Tory lands in middle of island airport mess
During a campaign-style drive-by in Mississauga last week, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, according to reports, sought out Toronto’s newly installed...
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LORINC: Denzil goes to the Waterfront
Not long after amalgamation, when Toronto council still had 57 members and met at Metro Hall, I set up a lunch-time interview with Denzil Minnan-Wong at...
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LORINC: Welcome to Tory Nation
Four years seems like such a very long time ago. Don Cherry, pinkos, and then a lengthy, nausea-inducing ride on the roller coaster of Rob Ford’s version...
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Toronto, Queen’s Park, and the circus at the School Board
If Premier Kathleen Wynne truly had the courage of the convictions that made her a great education advocate a decade ago, she’d ditch the measured calls...